/ pjuːk; NAmE / verb
puke (sth) (up) ( informal ) to vomit :
[ v ]
The baby puked all over me this morning.
That guy makes me puke! (= makes me angry)
[ vn ]
I puked up my dinner.
► puke noun [ U ]:
to be covered in puke
••
WORD ORIGIN
late 16th cent.: probably imitative; first recorded as a verb in: “At first the infant, mewling, and puking in the nurse's arms”, in Shakespeare's As you like it (II. vii. 144).